Nuclear imaging in acute cardiac care

Cardiol Clin. 1991 Nov;9(4):733-59.

Abstract

Various noninvasive nuclear imaging techniques provide powerful information regarding infarct site and size, regional and global ventricular function, myocardial perfusion, metabolic function and viability, as well as myocardial salvage after reperfusion in patients with acute coronary syndromes. This information is valuable to clinicians in streamlining diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making for critically ill cardiac patients.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Angina, Unstable / diagnostic imaging*
  • Critical Care / methods*
  • Heart Ventricles / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Infarction / complications
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnostic imaging*
  • Myocardial Infarction / therapy
  • Myocardial Reperfusion
  • Radionuclide Ventriculography
  • Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate
  • Thallium Radioisotopes
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed

Substances

  • Thallium Radioisotopes
  • Technetium Tc 99m Pyrophosphate